At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities

At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities
ISBN-10
0253013682
ISBN-13
9780253013682
Category
Religion
Pages
111
Language
English
Published
2009-03-23
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Author
Jean Amery

Description

This searing memoir of the author’s concentration camp experience “is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience” (Newsweek). “Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world.” At the Mind’s Limits is the story of one man’s incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival—mental, moral, and physical—through the enormity of the Holocaust. Above all, this masterful record of introspection tells of a young Viennese intellectual’s fervent vision of human nature and the betrayal of that vision. “These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain . . . all the way to its stoic conclusion.” —Primo Levi “The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true.” —Irving Howe, The New Republic

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